WHOOOOO COMMONERSHIPPING. (done because Hanon Diethel so politely asked me to. Yay you!)
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A word to the wise. I knew practically next to nothing about Platina and Diamond, since I didn't get to finish reading the arc- I didn't even know if it was Platinum or Platina. So… Sorry in advance for any OOCness, but I really wanted to bring across the concept of a possibly one-sided, possibly I'm-totally-in-love-with-you-but-I-need-to-hide-it-because-I'm-scared relationship. Oh, I'll just leave it up to you guys.
Disclaimer: I know not what I do. Therefore, please do not sue- For I do not own Pokemon; and I'm almost sure that you- YEAH, YOU- Well, NEITHER DO YOU!
I don't know. Chocolate chip cookies at midnight make me a little loopy. *hides in a hole*
01. anniversary
"Why are you all dressed up?" she wants to know, and while Pearl groans, Diamond wants to smack his face when he realizes she's forgotten that four years ago, today was the day that they all met each other.
02. new year's
"Happy New Year!" Diamond calls as around him, his friends whoop and set off fireworks- he smiles shyly at Platina and she smiles gaily back, but as usual she fails to remember the traditional New Year's kiss (or at least the modified tradition he had Pearl tell her about).
03. halloween
"I just don't understand why people say 'trick or treat'," Platina says, and Diamond shrugs, munching on his candy: "Doesn't matter," he gets out around a mouthful of chewy taffy, "You still get to eat!"
04. firsts
The first time she sees him, she feels a zing that she tells herself is respect for her bodyguards showing up on time.
05. middles
Platina smiles when Diamond drops his belongings into Pearl's arms just to rush over to the videophone and talk to her.
06. lasts
"Please don't fight, both of you are my friends and I can't stand watching my two best friends fight-" and as she pleads she sees a look of disappointment flit over Diamond's face, but she can't figure out why.
07. nostalgia
"Don't you ever wish for the good old days?" he asks wistfully, "just you and me?" and she reminds him that Pearl was with them- he smiles a little sadly and says, "Yeah, Pearl was with us…"
08. rendezvous
"Stay here," Pearl tells her as the Tyranitar rampages through a forest looking for them, "Diamond will come find you later-" and she wants to ask, Why Diamond in particular? but finds that she doesn't mind.
09. death
Things were never the same once either of them grew apart; it ached even more now that she knew he was never going to come back.
10. life
He scratches the back of his ear, not knowing what to say- Pearl's already run off after his Pokemon and yelled his goodbyes; finally he lowers his gaze and mutters, "See you around; have a good life," and he's so emotionally distraught that he doesn't realize how cold that sounded.
11. birthday
"Happy birthday, Pearl!" all the Dex Holders yell, and Ruby has his mother snap a group picture- both he and Sapphire examine it later and are amused to find both Platina and Diamond holding hands (they promptly get into an argument over whether the two Sinnoh teenagers are in a relationship).
12. wedding
"We'll both get married someday, won't we?" Platina asks wistfully as Daisy and Bill walk down the aisle- Diamond chokes loudly on the rice balls he had been sneakily eating, and up from the altar, Green shoots him a death glare.
13. spring
"He's still down with allergies?" Platina asks disbelievingly; Pearl nods, and with a sigh, Platina gives him the fruit basket she had brought along just in case: "Tell him I said get well soon."
14. summer
Summer's when Pearl drags Diamond to the comedy convention down in Hoenn to improve and sharpen their skills; for the month that he is gone, she finds that she does miss the quieter boy somewhat terribly.
15. fall
"I don't like it," she says decisively, "It's the month right before winter and after summer and it doesn't seem to have an identity of its own-" she pauses, and Diamond realizes that she's waiting for him to say something, so he agrees (even though he was simply watching her lips move without actually listening).
16. winter
She suggests that all the Dex Holders convene in Snowpoint City for the winter holidays; Diamond observes Ruby hugging a freezing Sapphire from behind and wishes silently that Platina didn't have the sense to bring a thick winter jacket.
17. morning
He was always the last one down in the morning, but his two friends had very different reactions: Pearl would huff and say "Finally!" while Platina would just look up and smile warmly at him.
18. afternoon
He likes the afternoon because it means lunch; when she's pressed, she insists that she has no preference for time of day.
19. evening
Again, Diamond likes the evening because it means dinner; she then makes the excuse that evenings mean a good night's rest (and maybe sweet dreams, but she admits it to no one).
20. late
He apologizes as he slides into his chair; she smiles, unruffled, saying "Better late than never."
21. black
As the Arbok rears back and hisses before slithering quickly the way it came, Diamond holds his injured arm and tries to stop the poison from snaking through his body; his attempts are futile, and as the world begins to darken, he sees Platina's face.
22. white
Diamond anxiously twirls the white rose, trying to find an appropriate simile since snow was so clichéd- the church doors swing open and he looks up to realize that white is as pristine as the wedding dress Platina is wearing.
23. grey
"Don't faint," Pearl says warily when he tells Diamond the news; his friend looks shattered as he sinks into a chair, whispering, "She's getting married?"
24. pink
He's always loved it when she blushes; pink looks amazing on roses, and Platina was a rose if he ever saw one.
25. blue
He really can't blame Pearl for conspiring with Blue to get him and Platina together; in the end, it backfires and leaves a very confused heiress with marshmallows in her hair and him with honey smeared over his face.
26. yellow
Not to give up, Pearl sends the innocent girl to probe Platina about her dream guy- she blinks a little confusedly at Yellow and replies, "Oh… I wasn't really thinking about a dream guy…"
27. red
Diamond represses an unfamiliar urge to murder Pearl when the blonde suggests oh-so-casually that the both of them should go up to Mt. Silver to visit Red (when they clearly saw Red arguing with Green earlier that day); he's very surprised, however, when Platina lights up and says, "Another adventure? That sounds like fun!"
28. orange
He mentions that Red and Yellow are somewhat compatible together; she insists that they do not need complicated relationships at this stage of life.
29. green
"Don't even," Diamond groans when Pearl suggests bringing the Gym Leader into the mix.
30. spectrum
To him, they're at totally different ends- she's so high up that she wouldn't even consider a commoner like him; he's so lowly that he can only watch from afar and think that he doesn't really have a chance (but like his namesake, he's hardy and doesn't crumble that easily).
31. kaleidoscope
"This is what commoners do?" she asks, puzzled, as Diamond hands her the tiny kaleidoscope; she looks through it and is immediately fascinated at how the colors dance: "It's beautiful!" she exclaims, and Diamond says "Yeah, you are," before he realizes what he's said.
32. facets
She observes the facets on the small diamond her latest suitor has sent over; strangely she's not really thinking about the sender, but about the boy whose namesake she holds in her hand.
33. ray
Diamond grabs her and leaps to the side as Cyrus fires blindly; his arm feels warm on her back, and the desire to have this last forever flashes through her mind before she pushes it away, telling herself survival came first.
34. dull
He can't meet her eyes as he shakes her husband's hand, then hers- she finds him later, standing alone, and sees that his eyes are devoid of the usual emotion and sparkle that made Diamond Diamond.
35. stripes
"What do you think?" she asks, twirling in a striped dress, and Diamond simply shakes his head; "Anything but stripes," he tells her while thinking, Although if you tried, you'd still look beautiful.
36. spots
"I take that back, anything but stripes and spots!"
37. gold
The Johto charmer has tried hitting on Platina so many times that Diamond feels like he's going to barf or punch Gold- punching, although unlike him, seems more likely.
38. silver
Why couldn't Platina be nice to someone like Silver, someone who rarely talked, let alone flirt?
39. shine
The casket gleams under the bright sunlight, and Platina thinks bitterly that it's life's irony; Diamond out of the three of them shone the most and now he was gone- and now she didn't even make any sense, she concludes.
40. leaves
Autumn kicks in and the trees shed their leaves; on impulse, Diamond grabs Platina's hand and runs with her through the maelstrom of orange and red foliage- she laughs all the way, feeling adrenaline kick through her veins.
41. motion
Every move she makes drives him mad; it's lasted for seven years and it's not a simple crush anymore.
42. cool
Platina wakes up from her feverish state to find Diamond's refreshingly cold hand on her forehead, and as he removes it and whispers to someone, "She has a fever," she grabs his hand and places it on her forehead, murmuring "Don't… don't leave."
43. young
When they were thirteen, he thought she was a friend he had temporary feelings for; when they were twenty, he woke up one morning realizing that he had always loved her from the start and now she was gone to someone else.
44. last
It kills Platina to know that she was the last one to see him alive- he didn't call Pearl to tell him that he was going on a journey, he called her and she didn't stop him when she clearly knew how.
45. wrong
At twenty-three years old, three years after his death and Platina's marriage, an exhausted Sapphire gets a call from a hysterical Platina, who sobs over and over "It was all one huge mistake."
46. gentle
He was always gentle with her, and deep down she knew that it went further than his usual kind nature.
47. one
She used to think that he and Pearl were one inseparable being, and now she knows better- they're two separate people, and though she claims that she doesn't have favorites, she prefers Diamond's quiet, kind personality over Pearl's loud, confident one.
48. thousand
Of the thousand memories he had Platina, Diamond remembered best the one of her eating his homemade chocolates, commenting that she'd never tasted anything so good in her entire life.
49. king
His name is Elroy, she says quietly, and his name means king- Diamond smiles and his heart aches terribly; but he lets it go because he figures that a queen like her deserves a king, not plain old diamonds.
50. learn
He remembers the last time he saw her before he left to help with Professor Birch's research in Hoenn- he remembers the wave they exchanged before he walked over the horizon, and sitting there in the solid wooden pew he bitterly thinks, Time waits for no one; six months later she stands in front of a marble grave and murmurs the same words, not letting her husband see the silent tears that fall like rain.
I realize that in two of these 4 chapters, I've involved character death and some morbid event in each relationship. I defend myself by saying that relationships are hard, and in the second and third chapters, because both parties are so different they're bound to clash sometime. And well, for Ruby/Sapphire and Platina/Diamond, I needed some way to show that they truly did care for each other. Um... Yeah. I think I should quit being so morbid. :D
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